POLITICALLY SPEAKING: Paint this town blue

The Victor Valley — traditionally a Republican strong hold — may be in for a changing of the guard.

According to Bluecounty.net the Republicans have lost more than 12,000 voters and the Democrats have gained more than 11,000 in San Bernardino County alone.

In an e-mail sent out by the group, they mock redcountysb.com for at one point bragging about having more than 34,000 Republican voters than Democrats.

In May, the group announced that registered Democrats in Victorville had surpassed the number of registered Republicans.

Now, the group is claiming that what was once a 4.53 percent registration edge in the county is now down to 1.35 percent.

"What happened? Since I don't see thousands of moving trucks heading up the Interstate 15, I am assuming that people are fed up with GOP policies and ethics that are crippling our economy and an embarrassment to our county," states the e-mail.

It claims that Ventura County last month went from Red to Blue and now San Bernardino County is poised to do the same.

Looks like the area might be going from "seeing red" to "feeling blue."

I have a better idea. Why don't we all just register as Libertarians!•If you thought a ticket was expensive, think again. According to a Sacramento Bee article, the California Highway Patrol has spent more than $600,000 of taxpayer money to retaliate against a whistle-blowing chief who bucked the agency by angling for the commissioner's job four years ago.

The tab has hit $619,000 — roughly the cost of 4,000 speeding tickets — and is still rising, as the CHP defends itself on multiple legal fronts, states the article.

So next time you get pulled over, tell the officer you don't mind paying for the broken tail light just as soon as he gives you your money back that the agency has used fighting lawsuits.• This week's joke:

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the working class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the future. Now, think about that and see if it makes sense,"

So, the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now."

The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."

The little boy replies, "Well, while capitalism is screwing the working class, the government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep poo."